National Board of Revenue (NBR) has brought some changes in the headquarters and its field offices across the country in a bid to bring administrative dynamism for achieving its revenue target set for the current fiscal year.
“The revenue board has appointed three members at the NBR headquarter and five are transferred while two new commissioners are appointed at its field offices,’’ an official of the NBR told the Dhaka Tribune yesterday.
At the member level, two of its zonal commissioners and one director general were promoted as the members of the revenue body.
“Such changes in the administrative duties in the income tax wing was nothing new, rather it is a part of regular process, which NBR goes through every year,’’ said the official.
“As we are already lagging behind the target, in order to achieve the higher target of revenue set for fiscal year (FY) 2013-14, the authority has already brought some changes at income tax wing and more administrative changes are in the offing,” he said.
For the FY2013-14, the NBR is set to collect Tk136,090 crore revenue; however, it has already witnessed Tk8,535 crore or 15% short of target during the first half of the fiscal year.
The newly appointed NBR members are Chowdhury Amir Hossain, Parvez Iqbal and Sirajul Islam. Earlier, Chowdhury Amir Hossain and Sirajul Islam were appointed as tax commissioners at zonal offices while Parvez Iqbal was working as director general of Central Intelligence Cell at NBR.
At the field level offices, Dhaka zone-6 income tax commissioner Mir Mushtak Ali has been transferred to Dhaka Zone office 2, while zone-2 commissioner Md Abdur Razzak has been made director general at Central Intelligence Cell, zone-8 commissioner Zia Uddin Mahmood has been transferred to zone-one, tax commissioner and director general of BCS Tax Academy Meftah Uddin Khan has been transferred to Dhaka zone office-6, and
Mymenshing zonal commissioner Ronjon Kumer Bhoumik has been made the director general of BCS Tax Academy.
From the recently appointed tax commissioners, Begum Humaira Sayeeda has been made the commissioner at Mymenshing zonal tax office, and
Madhab Chandra Dash has been made the commissioner at Sylhet zonal tax office.
For the FY13-14, the NBR is set to collect Tk48,300 crore from income tax.